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Information about 2005 In Argentina

See also: 2004 in Argentina, other events of 2005, 2006 in Argentina

Events

January

  • January 11: The state fines power distribution companies and national water company on grounds of bad quality service, and reclaims unpaid fines and unfulfilled investment goals, for a total of more $50 million.
  • January 14: Ex-naval officer Adolfo Scilingo goes to trial in Spain accused of killing political prisoners during the Dirty War. (Reuters Alertnet) (Link dead as of 03:31, 15 January 2007 (UTC))(BBC)
  • AFJPs (private retirement fund administrators) and other major local investors accept the terms of the debt restructuring proposed by the state, exchanging all their public debt bonds (worth $15,000 million).

February

March

April

  • April 30: About 40,000 Argentinians and Uruguayans block the international Puerto Unzué-Fray Bentos bridge, protesting the planned building of two papermills on the Uruguayan side of the Uruguay River, citing environmental concerns.

June

July

  • July 1: The People's Children National Movement, claiming an end to child hunger, close their 20,000-people march from Tucumán with a demonstration in Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires.

August

September

October

November

December

  • 6 December: The Fourth Summit of the Americas ends. Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela align against the U.S.-backed FTAA.
  • 15 December: President Kirchner announces the anticipated cancellation of the public debt to the International Monetary Fund, for $9,810 million, in a single payment, with funds drawn from the foreign currency reserves of the Central Bank. (Reuters). (Link dead as of 03:31, 15 January 2007 (UTC))
  • 20 December: Piqueteros, leftist parties, labour unions, student groups and other NGOs march in Buenos Aires on the 4th anniversary of activists' deaths during the 2001 riots, asking for welfare subsidies, and denouncing the payment of the debt to the IMF.
  • 21 December: Three government officers of the de la Rúa administration and six former Senators are accused of participation in a scandal involving bribes to pass a labour law reform in 2000.
  • Former governor of Corrientes Raúl Romero Feris is sentenced to five years in prison for misappropriation of state funds.
  • 30 December: Environmental groups and other concerned citizens, supported by Entre Ríos governor Jorge Busti, block the three bridges that join the province with Uruguay, protesting the construction of two paper and wood pulp factories in Fray Bentos.

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See also: 2003 in Argentina, other events of 2004, 2005 in Argentina

Events

January

  • 7 January: Roger Noriega, U.S. Sub-Secretary for the Western Hemisphere, criticizes Argentina's position on Cuba, and Minister of Foreign Affairs Rafael Bielsa says

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January

  • 31 January: After a meeting with executives of the main supermarket chains, the government announces an extension of price agreements until the end of the year (aimed

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  • 314 - Pope Miltiades ends his reign as the Pope of Roman Catholicism by dying in power.

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January 14 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

It is celebrated as New Year's Day by those still following the Julian calendar.
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Adolfo Scilingo (b. 1947) is a former Argentine naval officer who is currently serving 30 years (the legally applied limit, although he was sentenced to 640 years) in a Spanish prison after being convicted on April 19, 2005 for crimes against humanity.
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Motto
"Plus Ultra"   (Latin)
"Further Beyond"
Anthem
"Marcha Real" 1
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Dirty War (Spanish: Guerra Sucia) refers to the state-sponsored violence against Argentine citizenry from roughly 1976 to 1983 carried out primarily by Jorge Rafael Videla's military government.
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  • 588 BC - Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah's reign.

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Argentina went through an economic crisis beginning in the mid-1990s, with full recession between 1999 and 2002; though it is debatable whether this crisis has ended, the situation has been more stable, and improving, since 2003. (See Economy of Argentina for an overview.
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Feminism is an ideology focusing on equality of the sexes.[1] Feminism comprises a number of social, cultural and political movements, theories and moral philosophies concerned with gender inequalities and discrimination against women.
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Atheism

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ReligionNontheism
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Metaphysical naturalism
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Carmen María Argibay (born 15 June 1939 in Buenos Aires) is a member of the Argentine Supreme Court of Justice. She was the first woman to be nominated for the Court by a democratic government in Argentina, and caused some controversy upon declaring herself an atheist and a
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Argentina

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Politics of Argentina

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  • Nstor Kirchner
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  • 660 BC - Traditional founding date of Japan by Emperor Jimmu.

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Córdoba is a city located near the geographical center of Argentina, in the foothills of the Sierras Chicas mountains on the Suquía River, about 700 km west-northwest from Buenos Aires. It is the capital of Córdoba Province.
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January 15 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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  • 588 BC - Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah's reign.

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Antonio Baseotto (b. Añatuya, 1932) was a Roman Catholic bishop from Argentina. Until February 2005 he was Argentina's military bishop (obispo castrense), that is, the head of the military chaplains, with the status of Subsecretary of State.
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Ginés González García (born 1945) is a medical doctor and, as of 2006, the Minister of Health and Environment of Argentina.

González García was born in San Nicolás de los Arroyos, province of Buenos Aires, and graduated as a surgeon at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.
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For a more general overview, see Religion in Argentina.
The first conflicts between the Roman Catholic Church and the Argentine government can be traced to the ideas of the May Revolution of 1810.
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Paul Schäfer Schneider (born December 4, 1921) is the founder and former leader of a sect and agricultural commune of German immigrants called Colonia Dignidad ("Dignity Colony")—later renamed Villa Baviera—located in central Chile, about 340 km south of Santiago.
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Colonia Dignidad ("Dignity Colony") is the former name of the present-day Villa Baviera, (Bavaria Village) settlement located in an isolated area in the Province of Linares, Maule Region of central Chile, near the village of Parral.
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Motto
Por la Razón o la Fuerza
(Spanish: "By right or might")
Anthem
Himno Nacional de Chile
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